vengeful - Story 162667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clanging sound of the stalled elevator felt like a symphony. This was his chance to get back at Carol, the woman who had stolen his promotion. The air grew stale, and as the lights flickered, a smile spread across his face.

"Don't worry, Carol. I'm sure someone will get us out of here," he said, his voice smooth and neutral. He watched her face for any sign of distress, any flicker of fear.

He let her talk, responding with clipped answers, making sure that her pleas were ignored. He thought about what the boss would say when they were all back at the office.

Emotion: vengeful

Cluster: Defiance / Spite

PC1 (Valence): 1.70 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 3.71

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion vengeful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 vengeful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the vengeful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the vengeful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.739
`la`	0.527
`l`	0.507
`😈`	0.422
`-`	0.379

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.981
`此刻`	-0.504
`గుర్త`	-0.464
`보니`	-0.454
`仿佛`	-0.442